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Pier Luigi Fiorini edited this page Jan 3, 2022 · 20 revisions

Introduction

SDDM is a modern display manager for X11 and Wayland aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces.

SDDM is extremely themeable. We put no restrictions on the user interface design, it is completely up to the designer. We simply provide a few callbacks to the user interface which can be used for authentication, suspend etc.

To further ease theme creation we provide some premade components like a textbox, a combox etc.

There are a few sample themes distributed with SDDM. They can be used as a starting point for new themes.

Licensing

Source code of SDDM is licensed under GNU GPL version 2 or later (at your opinion).

QML files are MIT licensed and images are CC BY 3.0.

Most of the files include a license header.

Resources

https://github.com/sddm/sddm

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues

https://github.com/sddm/sddm/wiki

https://groups.google.com/group/sddm-devel

sddm on irc.freenode.net

Screenshots

sample screenshot

Videos

Video background

Maui theme 1

Maui theme 2